The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-04-09
His Address Before the
Pennsylvania X. Of L.
Convention.
He bCnOunCc> The IIng which
hhs nO star pom it, sinister
IicId Of Red.
Ana IL" Declares the knights
"t l.. Ilh,c. win Nnnrchi>t,.
\" NtirihuIc ia Common.



purpose of considering the various
laDor bills pending before the lcgis.
laturc, Grand Master Workman Pow.
derry spoke ~ follows:
I'll read of the result of the elections
in Chicago, the other day. and | wa,
glad to sec and hear that the work
ln2men OF that great city were good
enough to throw the lie hack into the
faces OF those who passed ~ their
friends aud representatives No
sooner did the anarchist ticket 90 be.
fore the people than it, supporters
said 1--WE will carry the ticket
through under the llag on the face OF
which
not ONE STAR uLiSrENEp'
not one stcip Is to be found, and the
teachings OF such men as powderlv
and Grilliths VIII have no woightWith
us But they found, on election daN
that anarchy was showed under A., II
wa never showed under before, aud
| say, amen to that, every time. Grnnt
applause did not Know but what
III decorating this hall, YOU might
forget to place the American flag on
the Val on Thursday. | brought thie
with me TINS morning, Here Mr.POw.
derry exhibited n llagl. Tremendous
applhusr And brought II here 80
that II We were charged that we were
not Americans. that there was |
don't care where | WAS born: | don't
care where the rest OF Won were born
that there was one who sWoro 10y thai
nag and no other. Here MIR powdcrly
prcsyntcd the flag To NJ. y. Burke, OF
CHrbundnlc. an old friend Let them,
tomorrow morning, after these out.
bursts of applause, charge u- with be-.
ing anything else but free born
American citilens those maniiceta-
tions which YOU have now given
expression To- will bc the rciutatIon ut
that lie, which il will ring down the
centuries in
CoNpEMNArloN or 1liERFn FLAG.
Now my brothcr-, we are here, and
We VIII stand or fall by the sentiment
! have gwen uttCrance TO. We are
here AZ \ mcriCanr, 10 watch Amer.
lean legislation in the interest OF the
American people, and in our Amer
men who assembled "a hundred year.
ugo in the city of Philadelphia and
gave the declaration OF lndcdendcncc
to the world, were right when they
declared that all men were created
tree and equal and endowed with Ger
tain eualienablc rights, and that We
believe that they t0ld the truth, and
that II still continues to he truth iu.
stead of a living lie, ~ some of those
men would have people believe. Ap-
plausr. We can do this without be.
my anarchists, aud do it without be.
coming partisaus aud without being
tied to the chariot wheels of either,
the old democratic or the republican
policy. Applause II was now an
lmpOs,ibllity fora mechanic TO earn
enough by his own labor to support
his family He had to rall in help
his wife and children. lIo wanted
"a barrier between life Of shame
ANp LIFE on YuuUoCs
ministry grcater than 30 cents dny
Children should be taken of the con
brcnkcrs and kept at school until 10
ycAr, old. The republic could not
exist on u foGndaf!on OF ignorance
vice and crime. Industrial schools
should be established and hands ana
brain educated nt the same time. The
legislature would not few years aRu
have paid the slightest attention To- -
HbOr organization, but now the
Knights OF Labor could defeat any
'AndldAtc, aud 70 word 10 tho wise